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Mission/Goals | Teen Camp | Peer Drama | Conflict Resolution/Peer Mediation Training | Resources

• Alcohol Abuse
• Bullying
• Distracted Driving
• Drug Abuse
• General Resources
• Online Safety
• Parent's Resources
• Personal Branding & Character Development
• Red Ribbon Week
• Safe Celebrations
• Taking a Stand
• Teen Pregnancy
• Tobacco

Alcohol Abuse

• Missing Ind. student's friend can't recall key moments
• The Impact of Outlet Density on Underage Drinking (PDF)
• 15 Shots Killed Shelby Allen
• Applebee's changes policies after child served alcohol
• More Young Women Driving Drunk
• Paper: Drunken driving instances represent 28% of NFL player arrests
• Bud Light venue name gets last call
• Walgreen plans return to beer and wine sales
• Strict Enforcement of College Alcohol Policies Reduces Binge and Underage Drinking on Campus
• Should Parents Be Jailed When Kids Drink?
• AACC Entrapment Decision
• NIAAA College Drinking Report-A Call to Action: Changing the Culture of Drinking at U.S. Colleges
• Teens Who Drink With Parents May Still Develop Alcohol Problems
• Wisconsin Alcohol and Law Policy Blog
• Super-High-Alcohol Beer Heads to the U.S.
• Americans Downing Less Beer, Sparking Brawl Among Brewers
• Officials Not Crazy About Potent 'Four Loko' Energy Drink
• With Drinking, Parent Rules Do Affect Teens' Choices
• In the end, a company does the right thing
• Report: Alcohol companies go online to lure young drinkers
• Green Bay police bust underage drinking party - 5/9/2010
• Death and Alcohol at the University of Virginia: Questions we should be asking
• New Drunken Driving Law Under The Influence Of Alcohol Industry Contributions
• So You’ve Got A Problem Tavern? (City of Milwaukee Brochure)
• Column: Keep teenagers safe during celebrations
• Young Drinkers Influenced More by Alcohol Ads than by Athletes' Drinking Behavior
• Underage Drinking in Wisconsin: The Facts
• A Teenager's Guide to Saying NO to Alcohol
• Menstuff® has compiled the following information on Spykes from Anheuser-Busch
• Anheuser-Busch, Inc. Corporate Responsibility
• Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration
• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Facts for Families
• Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking
• Stop Underage Drinking
• Why Do Adolescents Drink?
• The Problem of Underage Drinking
• Impact of Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use in Wisconsin:
• The Backstrom Family’s Drinking and Driving Mission
• Costs of Underage Drinking
• Social Host Liability for Underage Drinking
• National Strategy to Stop Impaired Driving
• Big Retailer Agrees Underage Drinking is no Game
• A Day in the Life of American Adolescents: Substance Use Facts Update
• Mixing energy drinks and alcohol may lead to riskier behavior
• Ashland gas stations want to change law preventing beer sales
• MADD Applauds Sens. Udall, Vitter, Lautenberg in Passage of ROADS SAFE
• Manitowoc police briefs: Police give 4 social-host violation citations

Bullying

• Canadian Norton Cyberbullying Survey Finds Girls are More Likely than Boys to be Victims of Cyberbullying
• Roommate charged with hate crime in Rutgers suicide
• With cyberbullying, there's no safe place, study finds
• Cyberbullying: Knowing the Signs Can Save Your Child
• Jodee Blanco - www. jodeeblanco.com
• Brilliant Resource on Bullying: Wow! RIP is very poignant.
• No Bullying!
• Schoolwide Prevention of Bullying
• Bob Lenz: Positive Self Image Speaker
• A School Scourge: South Hadley Parents, Graduates Speak Out on Bullying Problem
• Dating Dispute leads to bullying and suicide
• The Fear of Bullying Across the US
• In wake of student’s death, parents talk bullying
• A Guide for Parents, Schools and Students on Tackling Bullying
• Cruel’s Not Cool
• Annie Fox on What's Your Story Radio Show
• Bully Proofing Your School
• Love Our Children USA: Teen Resources
• Social Host Liability for Underage Drinking

Distracted Driving

• Lawmakers would link school, driving
• Safe Driving - Ultimate E-Book for Car Information
• Driving-safety clinics go into schools to help sober up teens
• Teen driver risks in high gear over summer
• Safety-driven software aims to block texting while driving
• Bans on texting while driving
• Drive Smart
• I Promise Program
• Video - Texting and Diving
• Texting and Driving, Do You Know the Cost?
• Texting and Driving, Worse than Drinking and Driving
• Texting While Driving: How Dangerous is it?
• Texting and Driving: a medical issue?
• Teens and Texting While Driving
• ATT Resources for Texting and Driving
• Texting and Driving Study
• No Phone Zone: Oprah’s Official Site
  

Drug Abuse & Misuse

• Teen drug use is up: New study confirms this disturbing trend
• Synthetic drug, 'bath salts,' scary to local substance abusers, expert says
• DEA bans chemcials used to mimic marijuana
• Youth marijuana use linked to psychosis in later life
• Combating Misuse and Abuse of Rx Drugs
• Invasion of the Pill Mills in South Florida
• Rx: Overdose Epidemic: Not Just for Celebrities
• National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign
• NIDA for Teens
• General Parent Drug Information
• Prescription Drug Misuse Education for Parents
• General Resources for Discussing drug and alcohol use
  
• Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Tool Kit
• NIDA Report on Prescription Drugs
• CDC warns of ecstasy overdose 'clusters' at raves
• Study Proves Children and Teens are Using Inhalants to Get High
• Misuse of Prescription Drugs Common Among Students

General Resources

• Columbine High closes on 12th anniversary of massacre
• Teen Depression: Teens share self-injury, 'cutting' videos on YouTube
• Alcohol: Media Advocacy Sample
• Seattle: One in 5 teens ‘sexting’ – sending naked pictures via cell phone (Video)
• Tips for Taming Teenage Stress
• Vodka Eyeballing: Teen drinking game that could cause blindness
• EROWID - www.erowid.org
• Parent Checklist
• Cool Youth anti-drug website
• Center for Substance Abuse Research
• Coulee Council on Addictions
• Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration
• Check Yourself
• Developmental Assets and Prevention
• General Alcohol and Drug Prevention and Policy
• What are Social Norms?
• How to Get Healthy, Younger Looking Skin Naturally... From the Inside Out

Online Safety

• Families get the 411 on sexting risk
• Sex predators target children using social media

Parent's Resources

• Sex predators target children using social media
• Parent/Teen Driving Contract
• Alstate Driving Resource
• Parent Network Checklist
• Parent Network Contract
• National Council on Patient Information and Parent Information
• Parents who host lose the most: Don't be a party to teenage drinking
• Mothers Against Drunk Driving
• Tips for keeping kids drug free in the summer
• How to talk to your kids about social media and sexting
• Ask Listen Learn
• Marshfield Area Coalition for Youth
• Get Help for a Teen Struggling with Alcohol
• Partnership for a Drug Free America
• Love Our Children USA, Stop Bullying!
• Bullying resources

Personal Branding & Character Development Resources

• Aimee Mullins: The opportunity of adversity
• Apparel company dumps Mendenhall over bin Laden tweets
• Civility problems cause uproar on college campuses
• GOP presidential hopefuls try to defuse their 'fatal flaws'
• Meet Rebecca Black, the Web's 'Friday' girl
• Virginia Tech survivor Colin Goddard lobbies for gun control
• Charlie Sheen breaks Twitter record
• Charlie Sheen: Winning?
• How to Rebuild Your Integrity
• Young adults keep closer eye on 'online reputation'
• Dying social activist prepares cause to go on without her
• Teens and Sexting
• Wisconsin Public Television- Teens and Sexting
• For teenagers, 'sexting' leads to child porn charges
• The Leadership-Integrity Link by Gen Ronald R. Fogleman

Red Ribbon Week Resources

• Red Ribbon Announcements 2009 (pdf download)
• Red Ribbon Official Proclamation (pdf download)
• Red Ribbon Official Proclamation (Word download)
• 9/21/09 YI Meeting Minutes (Word download)
• Newsletter for PR Week (Word download)
• Tic Tac Toe Trivia (Word download)
• Rx Drug Abuse CONNECT Activity (Word download)
• Text-a-tip Poster (pdf download)
• Text-a-tip Column (Word download)
• 10/5/09 YI Meeting Mintues (Word download)
• Grim Reaper (PDF download)
• Guerilla Alcohol Advertising Example
• CrimeStoppers PSA (mp3)
• Article: Student who fell from roof had gone to smoke
• Red Ribbon Week from Prevention Partners, Inc.
• National Family Partnership
• Red Ribbon Schools

Safe Celebrations

• Keep Your Kids Safe on Prom Night
• Broadcasters Guide for bringing media awareness to safe celebrations

Taking a Stand

• Survey: Kids lack exercise, healthful foods
• Fighting Corporations Targeting Teens
• Ways to get involved
• Are the alcohol ads in your community up to code?
• Alcohol Beverage Laws for Retailers: Underage Alcohol Questions
• Create a Fact Sheet
• Students Against Destructive Decisions
• The Elevator Pitch
• How to create a Media Kit
• Tips for Public Speaking
• Making Policy Change
• Making Your Mission Matter

Teen Pregnancy

• Wisconsin Youth Sexual Behavior and Outcomes: 2000-2009 Update (PDF)
• Sex study: More teens, young adults are virgins
• Survey: Teens more accepting of out-of-wedlock pregnancy

Tobacco

• Number of roll-your-own cigarette shops billows
• Going Smokeless
• Indiana Legislators Side with Big Tobacco over Kids By Killing Indiana Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program
• Secondhand smoke isn't just bad for kids' bodies, it's bad for their brains
• CDC predicts smoking bans in every state by 2020
• Wisconsin Bar Owners Talk About Smoke free Law
• Wisconsin's Workplaes are now Smoke-Free
• Sanitarian Smoke-Free Webinar
• Walker matches Neumann, is willing to repeal smoking ban
• Don't Forget Tobacco
• AMA: Electronic Cigarettes Are Drug Delivery Devices and Should Be Subject to FDA Regulations
• Regulations Restricting the Sale and Distribution of Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco
• EFFECTIVE DATES OF FDA TOBACCO LAW
• Tobacco Retailers and the FDA Factsheet
• FDA Tobacco Overview
• Youths take on corporate tobacco
• Guide and Info to Motivate Smoking Cessation
• Fight Against Corporate Tobacco - FACT
• FACT Podcast from What's Your Story Radio Show
• Kick Butts Day
• Tobacco Free Wisconsin
• American Lung Association
• Building Skills for Health Literacy Classes
• New tobacco Assessment Too
• My Last Dip (Free Online Resources)
• The Real Cost of Addiction
• Through with Chew Week (PDF)
• AMA: Electronic Cigarettes are Drug Delivery Devices and Should Be Subject to FDA Regulations
• 5th National Summit on Smokeless & Spit Tobacco
• Campaign for Tabacco-Free Kids
• Camel Snus
• Camel Snus on Facebook